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The global IDA membership is comprised of professionals working in varying roles in the non-fiction field. We are documentary workers, professionals
Documentary director and producer Nicole Newnham still remembers finding, as a young teenager, a copy in her mother’s bedside table of taboo-breaking
Nowhere is the commercialization of the nonfiction field seemingly more apparent than at the Sundance Film Festival. With entertaining documentaries
A Letter From Hajnal Molnar-Szakacs, Director of Artist Accelerator Program at Sundance Institute Nonfiction storytellers and their work have been
What is the responsibility of programmers when it comes to discerning whether a film deserves the platform and profile of a major festival? In a
By Bedatri D. Choudhury and Tom White The COVID-inspired online edition of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival earned universal kudos, and a staggering
Swedish filmmakers Maria Loohufvud and Love Martinsen’s children had friends over when they received an email from the Sundance Film Festival
Looking Back—2020 The Sundance Film Festival is the largest and, arguably, the most prestigious festival in the country. The job of the Sundance
In 2015, the Sundance Institute launched a new initiative to support “inventive artistic practice” in documentary called Art of Nonfiction. After
The swan song for John Cooper, following his stellar, three-decades-long tenure at the Sundance Film Festival , including 11 years at the helm, was